Born in Vienna, Austria on August 10, 1943, Michael Mantler is a contemporary
jazz and avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer. He is known for co-founding
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association and collaborating with Charlie Haden's
Liberation Music Orchestra in the United States. Michael Mantler studied trumpet
and musicology at the Academy of Music before enrolling at the Berklee College
of Music in Boston, Massachusetts in 1962. Relocating to New York two years
later, he collaborated with pianist Cecil Taylor, who enlisted him in the Jazz
Composers Guild. He formed the Jaz...